Magyar

Generally speaking (though we can find hundreds of case where the following isn't true) you want your industry down stream from your residential as to not spoil their water and air. Thus residential has moved north in Columbus while industry has (sort of) moved south (at least south from the Short North). Urban Geography 102 (from Ret. Geography Prof. Henry Hunker from OSU)

I'll say Miami

Please tell me that you are the one in the black turtle neck and not the "golf beanie" and shades.

Philadelphia would be more than happy to trade you Koy Detmer or Mike McMahan for Kitna. :-)

Route, Highway, freeway, interstate, Turnpike, Toll Road, Expressway, parkway. I barely say route (rout), unless I'm using it as a synonym for path, and never "root" In conversation, I'll say interstate (insert number), occasionally add US before the number when discussing federal routes, but rarely add state designation in front of those numbered routes. (So if I were to verbalize my route from Central Ohio to Baton Rouge I'd say I took 36, 42, interstate 70, interstate 65, etc, etc) When writing, I always use I, US, or state postal code designation before the highway number. Seven years of conversing with "roadgeeks" via usenet has altered my transportation lexicon immensely. :speech:

The enterance photo to UrbanOhio: It took me 10-15 seconds to figure out which city it was. I thought it was outside of Ohio for a moment. :x

Savage stayed, Collins got forced out. At least the talking heads sounded pleased when I was up there.

my 5 cents Your Linguistic Profile: 75% General American English 10% Dixie 10% Yankee 5% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern (I don't think I gained 10% dixie in 15 months here in Louisiana. Though I like to ask for Soda Pop and prefer Sweet Tea to unsweetened)

An 8th place playoff seed will be enjoyed more than the playoff seeding the Cavs have gotten the last 5+ years or so.

My last 4 electric bills from Baton Rouge (I changed apartments in August as well) September (pre-Katrina) - $50 (actually $200 due to a $150 deposit) October - $284 (a $184 surcharge for Natural Gas prices) November - $130 (a $80 surcharge for Natural Gas Prices) December - $84 (a $49 surcharge for Natural Gas Prices) Also to consider, when the power wasn't out from Hurricanes, we had our A/C on 24/7 in September and early October (that changed after our first bill). We barely turned on our Furnace in November and December (wasn't that cold, and the fear of another electric bill on steroids)

So what did you do for the revolution today!? Construct this critique for me? Yeah, this country is f'ed up in many, many ways. But restoring railroads to their former glory won't complete any puzzle. The beauty of the automobile is that you can decide where you want to go when you want to go. Railroads never provided that. You lived by their schedule and were at the mercy of other people's service. Now you can counter-argue that we can only drive on the roads provided (and that nary a person goes "off-roading" in spite of what car commercials show), that drivers are at the mercy of auto mechanics, highway signage, and their map-reading skills (ignoring finances on all sides). But, I've never read or heard of anyone packing all their belongs and moving west via rail. It was by horse, carriage/wagon, ship, car/truck. Railroads were romatized for traveling, not moving. And our nation has a 175 year history of federally paid for highways (re: National Road), as compared to 35 years for railroads. The current hegmony, here stateside, is that railroads are passe and 19th century (technically, so is the automobile). Instead of reinventing the wheel (Maglev, electric cars), we should look to something new. Why not "flying cars" or "Star Trek" shape shifting. And maybe spending more on developing fusion technology and less on a useless war 2,000 miles away. Complaining about the subsidies that highways & airliners get is akin to complaining about the recording/music industry. It's rotten along with someone is getting paid, and it ain't me. So again, if you want to start a revolution, you'll have to work twice as hard to convince the populace that the status quo isn't working for them. Me, I'm just jaded from all these promises that ended up empty due to a failure somewhere along the chain of command.

Boooooooooooooooooooooo! :x

I say the same thing after reading yours and DaninDC's rants.

I went to HS with Ben Curtis (his parents live near Ostander). I was 2 years ahead of him.

He was born in Dayton, then his family (mom) took to Texas.

How about Star Trek or Jetsons rectifing our transportation shortcommings instead.

^Just what I figured. Young blonde republican women in Ohio are not worth our (men) trouble. :-P

Except that Atlanta has 20 lane interstates in their downtown. Columbus has 12 lane interstates in the suburbs.

One of the local traffic reports mentioned the opening of the ramp during the evening rush hour. The traffic voice was prepping drivers mentioning that you'll come to the exit sooner (because the ramp is closer to Oh 3 than the old one was).

I talked about this with my mom last night. If Wal-Mart does open a bigger shop at 23 & Cheshire, they'll leave the current one, just south of 42

(I think I've told this story before, but since it fits the topic of this thread...) Whenever someone starts a debate about traffic lights being a cause of accidents at intersections, I'm reminded of an exchange I saw between a parent and an ODOT official during a public forum concerning the placement of a traffic light at US 23 and Coover Rd, north of Delaware (for Buckeye Valley HS) back in the early 90s. ODOT speaker: Stats show that placing a traffic light at an intersection increases the likelyhood of an accident. BV parent: So why does Lewis Center (Rd) have a traffic light @ US 23? <crowd erupts in support of parent> sidenote 1: Lewis Center Rd is where Olentangy HS is located (south of Delaware) sidenote 2: There has been a traffic light @ US 23-Coover Rd since 1999, after a new middle school, for Buckeye Valley, was completed next to the existing HS. It is generally believed that the uptick in traffic due to the consoldation in traffic led to ODOT "improving" this intersection. Then again, I've never understood why there has been a traffic light along US 23 @ the entrance to Delaware State Park (further north of Coover Rd and Delaware). I've rarely seen much traffic coming and going from there.

Mr. Sparkle can chime in, but I believe ODOT is doing away with those flashing warning lights for intersections. Reason; people are speeding up and trying to beat the light. Those warning signs were intended for "rural areas" anyways. They would look fairly garish along N High St. if you'd ask me. On the flip side, we have one instance (that I'm aware of) down here in Baton Rouge (proper) where there is smaller sign, with flashing lights, warning about traffic light changing. Not that it is of much use during rush hour around here anymore.

I wasn't expecting that to be finished till next year.

An OSU Geographer!!!!!! I'm no longer alone here. (I was in the Geography Dept from 99-02)

After today, may Paul Brown rest in peace now.